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Skype gives up fight against GPL

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:55:31 +0100

According to http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/linux/gpl-violations/

Skype gives up fight against GPL
Thu, 08 May 2008
Skype withdraws appeals case, judgement from lower court accepted

The court hearing in the "Welte vs. Skype Technologies SA" case went pretty well. Initially the court again suggested that the two parties might reach some form of amicable agreement. We indicated that this has been discussed before and we're not interested in settling for anything less than full GPL compliance.

The various arguments by Skype supporting their claim that the GPL is violating German anti-trust legislation as well as further claims aiming at the GPL being invalid or incompatible with German legislation were not further analyzed by the court.

The court stated that there was not enough arguments and material brought forward by Skype to support such a claim. And even if there was some truth to that, then Skype would not be able to still claim usage rights under that very same license.

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StyleIgnite free libre open creative commons gpl CSS designs

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:07:58 +0100

StyleIgnite contains many free libre open / creative commons / gpl CSS designs you can use for your website

http://www.styleignite.com/

For example here is a GPL checkbox and radio replacement CSS

http://www.styleignite.com/styles/view/48/crir-checkbox-radio-input-replacement

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Open Source alternative to the locked BBC media player !

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:47:11 +0100

http://www.getmiro.com/

Free and open-source, because open media matters.

YES, MR BBC, OPEN SOURCE DOES MATTER !

(Now is the time to Throw Away Your TV and stop paying BBC & MS £120/year)

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ohloh wikka wiki developers kudos !

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:26:02 +0100

WikkaWiki is a GPL LAMP PHP wiki ! Here are ohloh profiles & kudos of two of the developers !
(If you are also an open source developer why not make sure you have some kudos on ohloh!)

dartar

javawoman

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LG3D 180 & 360 GPL panoramic backgrounds

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:41:57 +0100

LG3D 180 & 360 GPL panoramic backgrounds

https://lg3d-art.dev.java.net/

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IBM Thinkpad running gNewSense and VMware Server

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:03:51 +0100

IBM Thinkpad running gNewSense and VMware Server

gnewsense and vmware server

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Open Source & Commercial Open Source (the SugarCRM way)

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:43:39 +0100

Open Source is a Better Way to Build and Distribute Software
http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/products/faq.html

In an industry dedicated to improving customer relationships (CRM), it is interesting that proprietary software vendors spend between 50-70% of revenues convincing customers to buy their product (sales and marketing) and less than 10% of revenues actually making better products (engineering).

We thought there was a better way.

Why not write our product in public and distribute it through an open source license? Individuals and companies would be free to evaluate the product and engage with SugarCRM when they were ready for a commercial relationship.

We could shorten the costly and time-consuming enterprise sales cycle while allocating more toward engineering (almost half our company is part of R&D). The model requires putting your product in front of your sales force, which means having a fast, intuitive application that is easy to learn, use and extend.

Commercial Open Source
http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/products/faq.html#about2

Commercial Open Source (COS) is based on the value Open Source software delivers to corporate buyers and the realization that existing commercial CRM applications are overpriced relative to the actual engineering dollars required to build these applications. The Commercial Open source model allows SugarCRM to offer:

Greater Innovation
Better Quality
Less Risk
Faster Payback

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VideoLAN Client (VLC) media player and VideoLAN media streaming

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:29:47 +0000

http://www.videolan.org/

VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License. Our main product is the cross-platform VLC media player.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html

The VideoLAN streaming solution includes two programs:

VLC media player which can be used as a server and as a client to stream and receive network streams. VLC is able to stream all that it can read.
VLS (VideoLAN Server), which can stream MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on the network in unicast or multicast. Most of the VLS functionality can now be found VLC.
Usage of VLC instead of VLS is advised.

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Spotlight on Open Source

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:55:53 +0000

If you missed Simon Phipps at Sun Tech Day London 07 you'll want to watch this :

http://blogs.sun.com/SDNChannel/entry/spotlight_on_open_source

Sun’s Open Source Contribution: $2 Billion, Dozens of Projects

Did you know that Sun contributes more than $200 million per year of intellectual property to the open source movement, in dozens of open source projects?

The company’s historical contribution tops $2 billion. WOW!

This month on SDNtv, tune in for a four-part look at Sun’s open source strategy and take a close look at several open source projects and how you can get involved.

In this week’s episode, guest host Dan Roberts (standing in for new daddy, Mark Herring) chats with Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief open source officer.

Tune in to hear Phipps explain how open source is radically changing the computer industry.

Stay tuned next week as Phipps hosts the Open Source Java Special.

You'll hear about OpenJDK, the new open source JDK project along with Project GlassFish.

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Future of Java : Open Source Projects and Communities

nobody@vox.com(osde8info) — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:40:34 +0000

[sun tech day]

Open Source is

Freedom to redistribute
Source Code
Freedom to create derived works
Integrity or authors
No discrimination against persons
No discrimination against purpose

Licence Categories

A. Attribution BSD
B. Derivatives may be licenced differently CDDL, MOZIILLA
C. Derivatives must be shared GPL

Open Source is everywhere

800,000 open source developers
Average experience 11
Average age 30
87% of US companies use open source
IDC says its "the most significent software trend since 80's"
Its use is now insisted on by Brazilian and German governments

glassfish.dev.java.net

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